New swine flu with pandemic potential identified by China

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30 Jun 2020, 2:25 am

G4 strain has already infected 10% of industry’s workers in China but no evidence yet that it can be passed from human to human

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Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study in the US science journal PNAS.

Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009.

It possesses “all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to infect humans”, said the authors, scientists at Chinese universities and China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the study published on Monday.

Between 2011 and 2018, researchers took 30,000 nasal swabs from pigs in slaughterhouses in 10 Chinese provinces and in a veterinary hospital, allowing them to isolate 179 swine flu viruses.

The majority were of a new kind that has been dominant among pigs since 2016.

The researchers then carried out various experiments – including on ferrets, which are widely used in flu studies because they experience similar symptoms to humans.

G4 was observed to be highly infectious, replicating in human cells and causing more serious symptoms in ferrets than other viruses do.

Tests also showed that any immunity humans gain from exposure to seasonal flu does not provide protection from G4.

More than one in 10 swine workers had already been infected, according to antibody blood tests which showed exposure to the virus.

The tests also showed that as many as 4.4% of the general population also appeared to have been exposed.

The virus has therefore already passed from animals to humans but there is no evidence yet that it can be passed from human to human – the scientists’ main worry.

“It is of concern that human infection of G4 virus will further human adaptation and increase the risk of a human pandemic,” the researchers wrote.

The authors called for urgent measures to monitor people working with pigs.

James Wood, head of the department of veterinary medicine at Cambridge University, said: “The work comes as a salutary reminder that we are constantly at risk of new emergence of zoonotic pathogens and that farmed animals – with which humans have greater contact than with wildlife – may act as the source for important pandemic viruses.”

A zoonotic infection is caused by a pathogen that has jumped from a non-human animal into a human.


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30 Jun 2020, 2:44 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:


After how long it took for confirmation of this transmission method with Covid, are any countries going to take the risk, or are they likley to block travel (and imports) from China until it is confirmed not to be transmissable in this way?



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30 Jun 2020, 3:38 am

COVID Mark II?



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30 Jun 2020, 6:54 am

Brictoria wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:


After how long it took for confirmation of this transmission method with Covid, are any countries going to take the risk, or are they likley to block travel (and imports) from China until it is confirmed not to be transmissable in this way?

There is currently a major global pandemic which has reduced international travel to a fraction of its normal rate, which makes the question rather moot.



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30 Jun 2020, 6:58 am

The_Walrus wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:


After how long it took for confirmation of this transmission method with Covid, are any countries going to take the risk, or are they likley to block travel (and imports) from China until it is confirmed not to be transmissable in this way?

There is currently a major global pandemic which has reduced international travel to a fraction of its normal rate, which makes the question rather moot.


There is...But with Covid supposed to survive on surfaces for up to 2 weeks (last I heard), that may affect exports as well.



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30 Jun 2020, 7:00 am

The_Walrus wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:


After how long it took for confirmation of this transmission method with Covid, are any countries going to take the risk, or are they likley to block travel (and imports) from China until it is confirmed not to be transmissable in this way?

There is currently a major global pandemic which has reduced international travel to a fraction of its normal rate, which makes the question rather moot.


Yep,
Especially here in Australia,
An Island continent.



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30 Jun 2020, 7:02 am

Brictoria wrote:
The_Walrus wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:


After how long it took for confirmation of this transmission method with Covid, are any countries going to take the risk, or are they likley to block travel (and imports) from China until it is confirmed not to be transmissable in this way?

There is currently a major global pandemic which has reduced international travel to a fraction of its normal rate, which makes the question rather moot.


There is...But with Covid supposed to survive on surfaces for up to 2 weeks (last I heard), that may affect exports as well.


I *believe* I caught the Coronavirus through goods sent from china.
I spray the heck out of anything I buy now, with Glen 20.



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30 Jun 2020, 7:05 am

Fortunately, flu vaccines are quite a well-researched field. As the virus has been identified, adaptation of existing flu vaccines for this strain is within abilities of current technology.


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30 Jun 2020, 7:19 am

Pepe wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
The_Walrus wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:


After how long it took for confirmation of this transmission method with Covid, are any countries going to take the risk, or are they likley to block travel (and imports) from China until it is confirmed not to be transmissable in this way?

There is currently a major global pandemic which has reduced international travel to a fraction of its normal rate, which makes the question rather moot.


There is...But with Covid supposed to survive on surfaces for up to 2 weeks (last I heard), that may affect exports as well.


I *believe* I caught the Coronavirus through goods sent from china.
I spray the heck out of anything I buy now, with Glen 20.


Everything arriving here gets wiped down (Even individual items in Coles\Safeway deliveries)...A load of books and some other items from the UK that arrived a few weeks back got the glen-20 treatment as well as a week in quarantine in the garage before I was allowed to look at them (as they had only taken 1 week to get here, meaning they may have been infected.).

It's not easy knowing you "have" the items, but that you can't use\read them.

And with "surge" in cases down here, no take-away for a few more weeks.



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30 Jun 2020, 7:27 am

magz wrote:
Fortunately, flu vaccines are quite a well-researched field. As the virus has been identified, adaptation of existing flu vaccines for this strain is within abilities of current technology.


I'd be surprised if "we" don't develop a vaccine.



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30 Jun 2020, 7:31 am

Brictoria wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
The_Walrus wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:


After how long it took for confirmation of this transmission method with Covid, are any countries going to take the risk, or are they likley to block travel (and imports) from China until it is confirmed not to be transmissable in this way?

There is currently a major global pandemic which has reduced international travel to a fraction of its normal rate, which makes the question rather moot.


There is...But with Covid supposed to survive on surfaces for up to 2 weeks (last I heard), that may affect exports as well.


I *believe* I caught the Coronavirus through goods sent from china.
I spray the heck out of anything I buy now, with Glen 20.


Everything arriving here gets wiped down (Even individual items in Coles\Safeway deliveries)...A load of books and some other items from the UK that arrived a few weeks back got the glen-20 treatment as well as a week in quarantine in the garage before I was allowed to look at them (as they had only taken 1 week to get here, meaning they may have been infected.).

It's not easy knowing you "have" the items, but that you can't use\read them.

And with "surge" in cases down here, no take-away for a few more weeks.


The only take-away I have is what I can significantly heat up or deep fry when I get it home.
I haven't had a "milkbar" type hamburger in over 4 months now, and can't see when I will in the future.



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30 Jun 2020, 8:06 am

I..I...I...

Have this sudden URGGGGEEEEE...

To wallow in mud!

And to squeal!

Ive GOT IT!! !! !! !

It already here! 8O

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Not trying to make light of it. Just letting off steam from crises fatigue!



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30 Jun 2020, 9:03 am

The worst part is it causes you to rape uncontrollably,It’s called “The Deliverance Flu”.
Everybody, don’t turn your back on naturalplastic.He’s infected.


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30 Jun 2020, 10:54 am

Is this for real or is it just BS?


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30 Jun 2020, 11:10 am

That's the last thing that the world needs right now.


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